NDR Big Band & Bob Brookmeyer: Question & Answer

Trumpets: Thorsten Benkenstein, Ingolf Burkhardt, Claus Stötter, Reiner Winterschladen
Saxophones: Fiete Felsch, Peter Bolte, Christof Lauer, Lutz Büchner, Frank Delle
Trombones: Dan Gottshall, Klaus Heidenreich,  Stefan Lottermann, Ingo Lahme
Chris Goossens, piano; Stephan Diez, guitar; Ingmar Heller, bass

John Hollenbeck, drums, Marcio Doctor, percussion
Bob Brookmeyer, cond

recorded live at NDR Studio 1, Hamburg, December, 2010

1. Christmas Tree
Soloist: Lutz Büchner, cl
2. Running In Place
Soloist: Lutz Büchner, ts
3. Verticals
Soloist: Ingmar Heller, b
4. Wedding Song
Soloists: Fiete Felsch, fl; Chris Goossens, p; Dan Gottshall, tb
5. Eleven
Soloists: Klaus Heidenreich, tb; Lutz Büchner, ts
6. Q & A

Composer, valve trombonist and conductor Bob Brookmeyer is about to celebrate his upcoming 80th birthday. Bob Brookmeyer is the foremost jazz composer working today. He has also taught many of today’s leading jazz composers including Maria Schneider and Jim McNeely.
He is a walking history of jazz, having performed with, and written for, a list that encompasses almost the entire history of the music. He worked regularly with Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Jim Hall, Mel Lewis, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and also with Count Basie and Woody Herman, to name only a few.

For this project he joined forces with the NDR Big Band to re-record some originals he had recorded earlier but not released on CD because he wasn´t pleased with the results.

His latest big band album "Spirit Music" features his own New Art Orchestra with some of Europe´s finest big band players.